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Maunakea, Hawaii – A team of
astronomers using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently
discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that
is only 54 light-years...
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii
– A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland,
recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of “active...
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MAUNA KEA, HI – A primitive
ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA
scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet’s atmosphere using
the most...
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MAUNA KEA, HI – Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1
telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed
record, traveling with a velocity of about...
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MAUNA KEA, HI – Astronomers have for the first time spotted four images of a
distant exploding star, arranged in a cross-shape pattern by a powerful gravitational
lens. In addition to being a...
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MAUNA KEA, HI – A team of scientists recently discovered a system of three planets, each just
larger than Earth, orbiting a nearby star called EPIC 201367065. The three
planets are 1.5-2 times the...
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MAUNA
KEA, Hawaii — A
new study from the Keck Interferometer, a former NASA project that combined the
power of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, has
brought...
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A team of scientists, led by Dr. Sebastian Hoenig from the University
of Southampton, has accurately
measured the distance to the nearby NGC4151 galaxy, using the W. M....
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — An international team of researchers analyzing decades of observations from many facilities — including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on...
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